The Healing of Memories

African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma
Herausgeber: Girma, Mohammed

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a comprehensive and balanced examination of the African Christian response to political conflicts. Its strength lies on its focus on the healing of memories from theological, philosophical, cultural and scientific points of view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781498572637
• ISBN-10: 1498572634
• Artikelnr.: 52415298

Autorenporträt

Mohammed Girma is international advocacy officer at the International Bible Advocacy Centre, visiting lecturer of intercultural studies at London School of Theology, and research associate at the University of Pretoria.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 From Painful Memory to Restorative Nostalgia Chapter 2
Remembering to Forget, Forgetting to Remember: Memory, Trauma and Religious
Imagination in Africa Chapter 3 "And I will heal their land": The Role of
the South African Faith Community in the Quest for Healing and
Reconciliation Chapter 4 Christian Churches in Post-Genocide Rwanda:
Reconciliation and its Limits Chapter 5 Mirror of Memory: Some Thoughts on
the Ethiopian Red Terror Chapter 6 "When the Foundations are Destroyed...."
(Psalm 11:3): Lament, Healing, Social Repair and Political Reinvention in
Eastern Congo Chapter 7 The Cry of Rachel: African Women's Reading of the
Bible for Healing Chapter 8 Ubuntu, Christianity and Two Kinds of
Reconciliation Chapter 9 The Intertwinement of Science and the Bible in the
Healing of Traumatized Memories